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, cd 4 - Francis Ouimet Could Make More Money if He Devoted All His Time to Business and Cut Golf Entirely Out. Coprrany ie)t T pure Cpesion. Apro Ouimet 1 ha for twe had a iot of phy me o er lars, trainin, my business, would have ma barrel Another former “Yes, and I stopped competing in athletics when | was a champion and could bave gone right along winn championships for years, Just because 1 wanted to give ail my time to bust ness, In my opinion Ouimet could have done the same thing He has! given his time to sport Instead, and] even if his reputation as a golfer may help hin a little in selling sporting goods to make up for the time he has given | to sport, without any financial gain He could ke more money by at tending to business like any other business man and cutting the golf out.” Which, to an old time athlete like myself, has the ring of Kood common nena. RANKIE BURNS of Jersey City ts one of the busiest fighters in t demand everywhere, for he has been fighting better than ever before. Just at present the bantam cla Burns, remembering the great old days when he bad to fight Johnny Coulon every few weeks to make life interesting, must have many a good looks over the 1917 list slump. jaugh of rival I remember well two corking fighta) the Speed King himself told m that Frankie had with Johnny Cou- lon here in the Big Burg. Smashing They said then that Frankie He was, And fights! Burns he isn't “going’ Ess J willing to fight any two heavy- bah dad VSON #AY#) Uncle Sam entered the world scrap, it didn’t meet with the general ap- Bere ee an that @ friend of his told him: | ‘phe Professional Golfers’ Associa-|proval of the players. President weights in the world this fall he “A punch on the Jaw made me |; jon ralsed funds to equip ambu-| Thompson of the Western Associa- didn't mean that he'd fight them| an artist,” lances for service in France, A num.| {00 is at work framing a new rule both at once. | vuunks for the tip, Matty. Always} on eo ie Bera Hank telcos will include some features of the Certainly not. We understand that| did wonder what could put @ little | 0°? Gh PEON BAYS AVN saan eee (ca aalale Saas all the time, Jess always was eco- |More “art” into my | scribblings. | spe lit | Rcmical. Whe wld he wish to} Sud you advise me to apply to Jess| Canadian border to enlist with the waste two perfectly good opponents by annihilating same Al holdi Fred chall More of Tom Jon we suppos | T for argument's sake, if Palzer A is J raters nowadays? he can lick his claim against Th Pew f The New Tare Bee ene f ing in ny pos of this is & lot of 4 © Went he ow ma AY that 4 are 1 of fun, of 1 ber at on fhe same time | i and competing, " fit, But of money athlete It will never help b 1 know it's true. he country. He i hi 1s. was “coming.” yet WILLARD wish stood that when he sald he was them fateful evening, Palze) ng the position ulton’ jenger list. next,” why a few of clutter up If he can fin wi not that more seriously. VPalzer laria” New York—when Moran beat hi a fare-ye-well malar last time he was Al may but we n a") amateur sports thousands both and for measley purse, when it would be just as casy to get two purse: being touted as in the heavyweight the second is sald to have had RAW any wieaes t ur stand anim barred pre n ny men are who make vigence it « time | have and @ lot has cost ot dol 10 to 10 it devoted ‘ chimed in nim enough | WHO SAID THERE WAS N te Pree Pwr “Toe Tennis PUSHER is one DEY Weaver Beeb IT Comb Pam PITLMROmS AND HERES A * BIRD” WHO Doesn't care ’ How HARD IT RAIS be “Down BaLow, Me Flay Sire HE fastest js in great which will ted at Min olis Aug. Miss Min olis, the defender of the cup this is said to show speed, and it the builders have bi prove on her lines There velop any greater specd Smith's marvel of last year Miss Minneapolis w that he doubted getting more speed ing ing being tri without tt under-| Miss Minneapolis, MATHE' Willard? on the one man who objects vehemently livan wos a world's heavyweight, an Englishman “next to picking, MANAC R threatens to match him) withone “Kid | of color, Mortis the streete| fact un d some one I be taken | rfolk,” a fistic alls att When asked to fight thought Norfolk was a blond “ma- fighting in| si n to had | night indi- |} ru have Couldn't nee chin, First Aid to Vacationists The WORLD 1917 Summer Resort Annual 64 Pages Where to go in the Mountains Where to go on the Sea Coast Where to go in Florida Where to of Reliable Information Where to go in Colorado Where to go in Canada go in Cuba and the West Indies Most Complete Directory of Places in the Catskills, Adirondacks and Near By Coast Resorts Ever Published For Sale—Price 5 Cents At all World Offices and at your nearest Liggett-Riker- Hegeman drug store in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Newark. By Mail from World Office, 10 cents. speed boats in country are being entered for! the Gold Challenge Cup Race, the possibility increas- he engine power and still keep- he weight down near that of the 260 horse-power Sterling that drives | Where to goon the Pacific Coast cation of chills when he was fighting. | That was one thing in his favor. the year, all of her original is a question whether nm able to im- will b bouts in the race with greater power, but it isn't likely that any will de- than Chris Even when out, of Have a@ letter from a gentle- to my statement that John L, Sul- champion But he admits he's have Carl Morris before the Commis- sion for turning down a match gent ation to the until recently the Commis- sion refused to allow mixed matches, Norfolk he Sam Langford now claims the rea- ‘on stopped him was that he was having trouble with his eyes that high enough to = Golf ‘Pros’ Well in Front Rank Of Sportsmen Doing War Duty Most Men of This Class Are Scotch and English, but They! Have Been More Than Doing Their Bit Since Uncle Sam, Entered Big Struggle. | A war duty would find the golf pros well in the front rank, | This class of men—most of them are Scoteh and Engiish—have responded | with a fine show of patriotism since have proved took his sid this since with the Allies the social chill from the U. 8. G. it or not era's teain of picked amateurs. former national By William Abbott. ROLL CALL of sportsmen doing this season the first time during the British armies, Others over the mili- Yom av. TWH FANCY DIVER CARES Uncie Sam Francis Oulmet, winner of the West- ern amateur titles, while still reoetving Ay will soon compete as an amateur in the Kast, whether the golf rulers like In the international, series soon to be staged for the Red Cross Oulmet will compete on Jerry Trav- The open and amateur, champion intends to work in as much} competitive golf as he possibly can The stymie rule was abolished for Western amateur champlonship last week, but} SPORT ON A RAINY DAY? cot eee eine Oe (Thee New Terk Brening Word - . . ‘ Y =) \~ NoP t Certificates Will / own ot -—— \warded Winner and | Feuer’ ‘ : Run ly poree) \ \ a he . ens m ia win ‘ “ 5 »\ ‘ M the United » . ? . . Tennis Ae : <e SS * 1 Edwin heate with -~ ef mA at Longwoeg o ~ the w ft the Junter en4 a ' . ® fearon tr a 1 SS , om Ge ~ ee é = Kw a= « winners of thy ~ led 2 e play in , ee Pr. <4 No mourning He champion & —— 2 & oe et | Baseman, cames Wert § Tennis Club of on Wet Daves - Karrick Begins to Sh arrick Begins to Show aay Some of His Contend “One Hundred Points Isn't Incurable, but It Is Going to e enders Take a Good Doctor to Inoculate the Polo Grounders For ] WO- y ear-Old Honors "| fi ” With Enough Defeats to Cure Them of First Place. salle: ld Siscaicisiailisasoliitaestina ; | By Arthur (“Bugs”) Baer. |Bully Boy and Dr. Johnson f pacing SELECTIONS. Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) | Have Shown Real Class pall dadaidenirh N inflated vest is never puncture proof, Just when you are distend- Within 4 ww YONKERS, ing your bronchial plateau in genial self approval you usually pick | ithin a Week. Firat Race ni Top Coat, up @ nal and the works go blooey. It is perfectly legal to get a ond Paddy Whack, swelled up over @ neat achievement, but Steve Brody 1s the only guy who By Vincent Treanor. Bred i Suk Feed, wads managed to doublecross that old adage about pride going before a fall RAINER BILLY KARRICK 18 /[ Achilles, a, Steve got his pride after the fall He sure took one wholesale tumble, | beginning to deal from his deck 2 ‘ 4 Pallux, Election, ‘ which is what we hope the Giants won't do. of two-year-olds, so to spea Dovedale, Star Gazer, Right now, the Giants are stepping along like » pup teamed up = 8d within a week hay shown two La Russe, Tea Party, tandem with @ vacant tin can. They are scooting forward like a {cards in Bully Boy and Dr, Johnson rplexing perturbed rabbit, While realizing that @ convex chest is generally | Wwhich should count some before the - a sign of @ concave skull, still we can’t help throwing out the old vest [two-year-old situation is finally Fi & t the lead that the Giants are suffering cleared up. Of the two Bully Boy is| eh oi ad could land Favour from, They are so far ahead that it looks chronic. One hundred | perhaps the better, but Dr, Johnson points isn’t incurable, but it is going to take a good doctor to inoculate ni ta ay? ore Ro. Ace ee es pole" Grounders with ansugh defeats to Sure ‘ernvof fire piece, | fot far behind blm, ‘This eon of Sir] Monier bad « workout of,8 mile They stepped on the Cibs yesterday. It was the orthodox style of jo&n Johnson, making his second ap- out very strong in 1438-6 in baseball. No umps were flattened, no spectators were spiked, nobody | Pearance in the last race of the day, | going that was anything but good. stole first base and there were just enough peanuts in each bag to | yesterday won with little or no con- prevent ‘em from being hermits. By placing two peanuts in each bag, tention. There was nothing to preas| The exodus to Saratoga will start | the vendors can speak of ‘em in the plural and still be within the law. |him and at the end he was just gal- |800% Simon Healy is sending the It was a good game, but no novelty. Score, four to two, with nobody loping. | Tom Hi aye Ms laren tee. on either team suffering from frostbite Dr. Johnson might have won from |stall train for the Wilson string BR - 4 oye the drop of the flag but under an in- July 28, and Willie Midgely will ship Hans Wagner didn't have to manage the Pirates long. He must have |‘ M | Legh got some time off for good behavior. telligent ride by Knapp was kept off bee gute arn Ravens ener srem sere bemnia |the pace only to come from behind | ss Cleveland had their team recruited up to full war strength and | Caddie like a champion, This Caddie,; John Cavanagh has completed his tossed the Yanks off, three to two. Looks as if the Yanks’ winning fd the Way, was very well thought of Sree aiae ae Cavanagh ape- \s one, |Dr. Johnson showed himself to, be Grand Central Station July 31 at 6.80 ) There are warmer spots than a ball park in July, But don’t go up to|very ordinary. Kither that or Kar- |?) M, stopping at the One Hundred the Polo Grounds expecting to hear the merry jingle of sleigh bells. Ty Cobb is still busting them up there on that old batting barbette, When Ty tosses that glim of his over the swatting parapet, the pitcher generally joins the Abdication League. The Reds-Phils game was closer tian stops on a rie, The short right field wall bea and Alexander, local train on the s the Reds, as It wasn't between them | For every victory there must be a defeat., Succotash wouldn't be A victory wouldn't Without a negative be a victory if there wasn't a wi tary age have volunteered for exhibi- | and a positive there would be no circuit. The Robins were the nevative Hensiatshan’ 20k the: bebadt: Of the! erday, while the Cards gobbled the goodies. The Brooklyns Mad Choon, Benedict Easy for Levinsky. bing cig Sas changing the needles changes the tune. But they leave | e ' the same o! ord on the machin Old-time champions like Aleck Smith | , Battling Levinsky, the light heavy and Gli Nicholls have t lied thou. sands of miles at their own expense | round bout at the Milltary A. C. |to compete in benefit tournaments for | night, Benedict. was in the Red € This pair alone bas|when the final bell rang | raised a tidy sum for war relief work, | round Levinsky sent his o And Aleck und Gil intend to stick at | fan after raining upon this endeavor ali this summer, next winter down South and for the re-| and Benedict 1 |mainder of the war, if necessary,| Mohler and Medar Win Boats, |Smith and Nicholls are only two of| Willle Kohler, the local featherwelght, {the many prominent paid s ‘who! gave Charle Hayes a boxing lesson at jin contributed their services for the | the Yorkville Sporting Club last night. ted Cross. ee Ry ey . é vi ; ped rote. ag among those who f,the semlsfinal Dave Medar had the) At the Ploneer Sporting Club to-night | _Weiterweights wil be featured at Bill Brown's | eee ne Heitinh many veorutting | ete ae tata faat amd interesting bout, |Dantams, feathers and lightwelghts| Far Rockaway Club Friday evening. Marty Crow, | headquarters, No, 280 Broadway, yes- | weight champion, scored an ensy victory Jover Al Benedict of Hoboken in a ten- dire distress In the sixth pponent to the im a shower Levinsky weighed 178 pounds A gent said he liked to go into the water at Coney Island because St reminded him of bathing, The way the Browns are playing probably reminds the St. Looey fans of baseball. Any team that can spurt past the Athletics into last place deserves the pewter medallion. it The barrage fire in Europe is simply the gunners choking their cannons and dropping Texas Leagues over their own Infield. make up the programme. The two ban- | {h* favorite (ihetto boxer, will ment Albert Ia |rick's colt is a star. Dr, Johnson is 224 twenty-ffth Street Station a owned by Mrs. W. M. Jeffords, a new |®37 and at Yonkers at 6.67, Tickets |comer to the turf, whose colors—pink, |@"4 parlor car seats may be pur- Yellow hoops and pink sleeves-care de: {chased from Mr. Cavanagh elther at dedly feminine. ‘The colt whose | the track of at his office, No. 80 Eaat dam is Quack, very aptly named, is | Forty-second Street mon e first of the get of Sir Jo! Ree Fe ee ee te sont | Harry Fink tried to buy Ballad after |the best of them as a racing machine, | the colt had won the Tarrytown [Atnong breeding sharys the colts and Stakes. Ballad was entered to ‘be /fillies sired by Sir John are regarded Sold for $2,000. Fink ran this up to as the best of racing products and but an extra bid of $5 retained worthy of attention in any company, | ‘@ colt for Mr. Butler If Dr, Johnson earns the place in r ing that his father be entitled to a niche in the Sport's Hall of Fame, He certainly has made an auspicious beginning. ‘There ts no blare of trumpets heard kanized ba lately about the Sanford horses since |ient league in Pennayivanta, Sothoron are slipping past the post very regu-| record for himself und who. hae. been Narly these days. Wambeek won his|pronounced a star by Fielder Jones, second start terday and won }ke|manager of the club. Bill Dono ‘a good one. rly in the year San-|manager of tho New York Club, i} sident Johnson in Chi ° had written from Philadel- ning the affatr, Baker Send xplanation. Fan Johnson, President of the Ameri- hot on the trail of Home arging that hi Sothoron to and join an indepen- occupied he will! |ford was sald to have a mortgage on |Kraphed T° | the three-year-old maiden events, He the |lost a few of them, but he still has |2O some very eligible maidens in that |= particular division, 24, it is announced, will be} ut the Yonkers track. | Everybody 1s supposed to pay his or her way in that day, trainers, jock-| eys, stable hands and officials. | ‘The| terduy, to offer himself as a volui Clarke Knocks Out MoVea. tams who clash aro Georgie Mass ant @°\ Garspiae welterweight Hurope wll tna | Bronte, are to go to the Red Cross arody, eS er Ae ue i Coe etry My {bout Is austhing like thelr last encounter the |S ‘ Lier oor ee pine, © tthe | PANAMA, July 17.—A_ big crowd In Danny Pavese. The feathers Who'll) nockaway fang are in for some real excitement, ~~ ee eee eeeatee eT hie hanes, Ghion |the bull ring saw fam MeVea knocked |¢rade wallops are Joe Garry and Jerome 7 The Kentuckians put one over yos- law badly smashed about two years {Out by Jeff Clarke in the Afteenth round , While the Nehtwelghts who'll) pet iy (terday when Lady Rotha romped | i 5 years | vere for the colored heavyweight cham-|face each other are Johnny Schwarts|, Manager Paddy Mullins of the Clermont Rink | iiome in the second race, Not a fow ago in a motoring accident, when | here for haw completed hia card of thras ten-round boute | oe . Nicholls was returning from Atlantie |” Ye _ s and Paul Doyle (or Tutatey alah Belden the tle wal tml teetee Favour had a chance to beat City after a match to Wilmington, —_— who Fai Se arash py the erstwhile stake mare, but oven |where he was then engaged as in Frankie Bums, the Jersey City baniamweight, | gin, the clever colored lightweight, ola, there |'%@ Most painstaking riding on the Hetore this country was forced into LN defeating Billy Fitzsimmona at the Far Rocka-| the clever featheree! Paddy ‘ j ie clever featherweight and Paddy MoGire, the the Huropean conflict the golf profes- STANDING OF THE CLUBS. way on lant Friday night, will we in another | Yrookim colored boxer, and Willie Thompson of sionals a8 a class were looked upon| Ww. L. e.0, ten round battle tonight, He will @ sgai Greenpoint and Sailor Brooks, colored with con ble contempt, It was| Young Marino, the Italian bantamweight, in the Picea SSS ss }common for y rrs und those in the | v.84 49 410 || tar go of ten rounds at the regular weekly show tournament galleries to see a husky i aa aa 1 ad 292 | | of the Harlem 8, 0. of Hammes George Chip ban ai SWIMMING | pro on the links and remark tht he g ot way Beach, ume ls alo mat | of Providence for more time to train for hia bout IENTIFICALLY TAUGHT. Is red ronati iahe be || Seats et Gomes men i ete mm cn fcuma reads EAE could better u his time in the Moore at the Armory A, A. of Boston one your vacation this summer, | trenches. oteh and English RESULTS YESTERDAY, | {rom to-niai, the date now eet for their twelre-round battle alien! for, Heokles i. é |born players were regarded as Rochenter, 3. —— ae cat 44th BOR Wane ey aGa teint 1; Richmond, 8 Soldier Hartfield and allan Jon Gans, the! ‘The cant arranged by Matchmaker Jack Bulger 19 West 41h, BOB Woes , | more golf followers would ask, “Why Monteeal, 16; Baiimare, 8 ten.round bout at the Broadway 8, C, of Brook: | row night le aa follows: H Parese, Har SPORTING | don't. those fellows go home and! “ eee n on last Satunlay night, were promptiy re-|N. J, re, Billy Murphy, Staten Inland, tw or figh But it was forgotten that Montreal, 3; Baltimore, 2; 2d game, F| metciset after the comtest to engnge In another | ronda p ringnide: Johnny “Russell UNIFORMS & | CE attest rie atwnes S20t GAMES TO-DAY, battle at the same club on Setunlay eveuing. | Yoreviile, ve. Jimny Papas, Atlanta, tw EQUIPMENTS RAC ING | England their home. Newark at Roche July 29, ‘The managers of bot men asked Jil | minds, 115 pounds ringside; George Marks ni spent many years here. Vrovidence at Toronto, Weismantel, matohmaker of that club, to allow naland, 10qgeund champion, ve. Young Willard Tathia tT: H H gtd spent many years here | al any a Thar onion We tale apniay tui Go 4 o:| Prbticios ny tts Pe once Empire City Track of th Atlantle and the United Richmong at Buflalo, hesitate about granting their request Og) POO Baths Whe (YONKERS & MT, VERNON) was their home, And they 7 MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS National League, American League. Cube, We PC Clubs WLC, |) Clubs, We LPC, Clubs, WL. PAC New York 48 26 | Chicago...51 31 622) Detroit, .4t Phila... .40 32 , 480 |/oston..,.60 31 617, Wash'ton, ¥3 45.423 Mt. Louln.43 37 32 43 427 || Cloveland 46 40 635 Phila... 29 47 3 ‘Cinetnnati 46 4 +24 63 .312 || New York 41 38 619 Mt, Louls..32 62 381 RESULTS OF GAMES YESTERDAY, Cleveland, 3; New York, 2 Boston, 0, Chicago (rain), Detrolt, va, Philadelphia (rain) GAMES TO-DAY New York at Cleveland, Washington at Chicago, (Two games). Philadelphia at Detrolt, (Twe games), Boston at %, Loula, Pittsburgh at Boston. Cincinnatl at Philadelphia Bob Devere, through bis manager, Ed Patterson, a a yt away the famous knocker. ning, owing to @ cold In his back, Matobmaker | ‘Bat he would have pat oway | Murray deviled to substitute Wallace and Britt haa Leen selected t tattle between 1 crack Chicago lghtwoigit | at the St, Nigholas A, ¢ return | member of Company I, Sixty-ninth Regiment, “Oe the other side timt's where they're doing th sting,” said Miko to-day hand the K, 0, from which they never on Friday pight | _ Gignts To-Day With Chicago, 3.30 80cm adye P. My, Pole Grounds, Adm, all Brooklyn light Sn F ee ae ie Lehtweight, 0d! announces that he is training faithfully at the Young Britt of New HeMon!, Stem., will meet | Sow Polo A, 0., for bie ten-round bout with K, O | 1m the main go of twelve rounds to « deciaon at! Hilt irennan, which will feature the Harlem |the Armory A. A, of Manton to-night, Wallace] Sine Club's cant of three ten-roand bouts ly go over Wi me p's ca ree r | | ere eee Dilla ane Jaciaoa st the | Vriday night, Detere recently was outpointed by | same ©! Jack Dillon was unable to meet rennan, but scored « knockdown, and he clsime Nattling Levinsky at the Armory A, A, this eve | 1 but scored « nit from Chicago bad be been in first-class con. | ‘1 150 Tutitier Pouch Jeare Grand Omntral ‘Terminal, Harlem Meer deren dition 1.50 Ii ee Division “at a.AB. 1.81 P. At Heguber - . | NAVY Pritts “had Neds he ina ies! aay from! 11°88 4. Soot mit | erry Tae and Wills Britt have formed Tt looks as though Freddie Welsh will never | Ahinceess traing stop at 128th ‘St. "Ntad we Broad: | merwiiy and have taken under their managed box again, The only chance of hia coming back Shows te ubway (0, 225th Bt... thence by direst | arveral tasers whee Intend to keep te for Nenny Leonard to agree to box him at faites | Rood, or tin and ov Aves eBt boring at elute tu Connecticut and in ty-round bout to @ decision, Freddie ts now d |] trains to" ihoth 8t., “thence” by Yerome States, Lee and Mritt can be located at. the hia attention to bis farm |] > "oreo, Mand and Reaseots fo Motel, Hrd Cana, <3, where be i# going to hold | rand Stand and Paddock, | Attantic Hotel, Hid Mi thers be a galas bed 6 le Tadion #1g00 o8! ~ ng for his friends on Sunday > not comfime our store. with Tilly Roche, the well-k who of — caters “Hiran™ tho “hans Pacopied | 0 elated at the ten-noind ; eect sitting names hike Parke, feasied a ee. tenes Mike Donaidaon retired middleweight boxer ‘d BENNY LEO joss fralnes! anol atanw as Stanley Ketchel and Benny Kauff, is now @ “I hope to up to serena) Geraiane before many weeks bare pasend:”’ ‘on Also Collar Ornaments, ete ANIZATIONS ie TO-DAY Bix Good 0 INCOMING Bronxville Handicap FIRST RACE AT 2,80 FP, M. 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